The UK has lost almost all its native wildlife, especially its forests and big animals. Rewilding would bring back everything from beavers to bears
Source: BBC – Earth – The rewilding plan that would return Britain to nature
The Texas Prison Museum Thrives on ‘Dark Tourism’
The gift shop offers shirts honoring the electric chair (“Home of Old Sparky”), and the museum’s visitors get a “selectively edited” history of corrections.
U.S. Forest Service i-Tree Developer David Nowak Calculates Value of Urban Trees – CityLab
Meet the U.S. Forest Service scientist putting a dollar value on urban forests.
Source: U.S. Forest Service i-Tree Developer David Nowak Calculates Value of Urban Trees – CityLab
Matahara Is A Global Problem | Thought Catalog
I recently discovered there’s a unique Japanese term for maternity harassment called matahara. Pause on this for a moment. The pervasive culture of pushing working mothers out of their positions is so commonplace that their society made room for it in its vocabulary instead of making room for solutions to define working parents with equal value. Despite Japan passing legislation to prevent maternity harassment, one in five women are still being bullied and/or fired from their jobs while pregnant. Having been entrenched in the Silicon Valley startup scene for a decade, I was naïve to think this was a geo-cultural problem. It’s a global one.
Could we Live on Water?
the UFO, or unidentified floating object, is an energy autonomous vessel capable of estimated speeds of up to three knots (3.5mph).
Source: jet capsule unveils unidentified floating object concept
jet capsule water boats unveils 2016 version
conceived initially as a personal watercraft and already presented as a water taxi, the ‘jet capsule’ can be the perfect vehicle for many different purposes
